Word: hearkening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hearken, friends, it is a story droP Of Gypsy Gorman, Spanish, chorus girl, Who wed for love, of course he had a roll, And tried to swim the social whirl. Jimmy Ralston was the wealthy swain Who wed this, Jewish, chorus dame; For act and act he tries in vain His Mother's wrath to fully maim...
Still, stupid people turn to quacks, hearken to vicious promises, such as appear in the current issue of dolichocephalic Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture. Thus he shrieks in headlines...
...shall not any man have save it be one wife and concubines he shall have none, for I the Lord God delighteth in the chastity of women. . . . For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people, otherwise they shall hearken unto these things." In 1843, Smith had a " revelation " establishing polygamy, but it is supposed that he had been secretly practicing it for some years. When the purport of the new revelation became generally known there was an uprising against the Mormons, and several of their leaders, including Smith, were...
...when there are new sports, vitamines, masseurs, and reducing medicine the old folks like to hearken back to their energetic youth when each man took his own exercise and did not watch some one else play. Yet while our Indian stalking ancestors may have been trim and athletic of necessity, old family albums show corporations as well as side whiskers and one wonders how they flourished in the rigorous life of the time. Can it be that men existed in that golden age who never pushed a pedal nor pulled an oar? Impossible...